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What Is Cryptocurrency? “Jeopardy!” Features Entire Category on Crypto

Is cryptocurrency becoming more mainstream? It could be if one of America’s most prominent game shows features an entire category devoted to it. The November 29, 2018, episode of “Jeopardy!” — which has been on the air since 1964 — offered five unique questions centered around cryptocurrencies and their technology to test out its contestants’ knowledge on the subject: The results reveal that they did indeed know their fair share. дальше »

2018-12-1 22:18


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HODL On A Minute: CNBC Claims Popular Bitcoin Term Is ‘Acronym’ In New Film

US media network CNBC has already courted controversy prior to airing a documentary dedicated to Bitcoin and cryptocurrency. Dubious Facts Set The Tone Just a week after an analyst poked fun at the network, which frequently covers the industry, over its record of correctly predicting Bitcoin’s future price moves, the announcement of ‘Bitcoin: Boom or Bust’ has set a curious tone. дальше »

2018-8-27 19:00


A Guide to 99% Fault Tolerant Consensus

Special thanks to Emin Gun Sirer for review We’ve heard for a long time that it’s possible to achieve consensus with 50% fault tolerance in a synchronous network where messages broadcasted by any honest node are guaranteed to be received by all other honest nodes within some known time period (if an attacker has more than 50%, they can perform a “51% attack”, and there’s an analogue of this for any algorithm of this type). дальше »

2018-8-9 04:03


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Bitcoin Will Flash Dump then Moon, Says Veteran BTC Analyst Willy Woo

Veteran digital currency analyst, Willy Woo, correctly predicted back in late May, that Bitcoin (BTC) would test levels below $6,000 before any signs of recovery would be seen in the markets. Back then, he did not see BTC holding the $7,000 price level and had this to say: I think we are gonna go to […] The post Bitcoin Will Flash Dump then Moon, Says Veteran BTC Analyst Willy Woo appeared first on Ethereum World News. дальше »

2018-8-1 17:13


Lykke implements limit order capability on the Lykke Exchange

Lykke has added limit order capability to the Lykke Exchange. “We are pleased to offer limit orders to the members of our community,” said Mikhail Nikulin, co-founder and CTO of Lykke. “This feature has topped the wish list for many of our most passionate users, but before we could implement it correctly, we needed to make other enhancements to our exchange. дальше »

2018-7-31 13:22


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Google Docs gets an AI-powered grammar correction tool

Suck at grammar? You’ll be happy to know that Google’s introducing a grammar checker into its Docs app; it’ll use the power of machine learning to spot your mistakes as you type. The company says that its AI can identify a wide range of errors and suggest fixes for them, “from simple grammatical rules like how to use articles in a sentence (like “a” versus “an”), to more complicated grammatical concepts such as how to use subordinate clauses correctly. дальше »

2018-7-25 08:12


STARKs, Part I: Proofs with Polynomials

Special thanks to Eli Ben-Sasson for ongoing help, explanations and review, coming up with some of the examples used in this post, and most crucially of all inventing a lot of this stuff; thanks to Hsiao-wei Wang for reviewing Hopefully many people by now have heard of ZK-SNARKs, the general-purpose succinct zero knowledge proof technology that can be used for all sorts of usecases ranging from verifiable computation to privacy-preserving cryptocurrency. дальше »

2018-7-21 23:03


Notes on Blockchain Governance

In which I argue that “tightly coupled” on-chain voting is overrated, the status quo of “informal governance” as practiced by Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, Ethereum, Zcash and similar systems is much less bad than commonly thought, that people who think that the purpose of blockchains is to completely expunge soft mushy human intuitions and feelings in favor of completely algorithmic governance (emphasis on “completely”) are absolutely crazy, and loosely coupled voting as done by Carbonvotes and similar systems is underrated, as well as describe what framework should be used when thinking about blockchain governance in the first place. дальше »

2018-7-21 23:03


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The Genesis Files: With Bit Gold, Szabo Was Inches Away From Inventing Bitcoin

As his Hungarian parents had fled post-war Soviet regime to settle in the United States, Nick Szabo came to call the Californian Bay area of the 1990s his home. Here, he was among the first to frequent the in-person “Cypherpunk” meetings organized by Timothy May, Eric Hughes and other founding members of the collective of cryptographers, programmers and privacy activists centered around the ’90s mailing list of the same name. дальше »

2018-7-13 17:16


File your crypto taxes with TokenTax

Filing taxes has always been a headache. To be absolutely sure of including all the data, computing everything to the point, and calculating each figure correctly gets troublesome. It is only so troublesome in fiat money, can you imagine what it would be like to file cryptocurrency tax? Aren’t cryptocurrencies tax-free? Yes and no. дальше »

2018-6-11 16:38

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